Canada's Eastern Arctic Patrol 1922–68

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Mackinnon, C.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Canada; Smellie; Beothic; inuit; Polar Record
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400012213; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400012213

Abstract Concerned to assert sovereignty over northern territories, Canada in 1922 began an annual patrol to the eastern Arctic to establish and maintain police posts. The experienced Captain Bernier and the Arctic made four trips; then from 1926 to 1931 the government chartered Beothic , a larger s...